Where are my "best" days of my life?

Bryan Adams Summer of '69 from Reckless 1984

I got my first real six-string
Bought it at the five-and-dime
Played it till my fingers bled
It was the summer of '69

Me and some guys from school
Had a band and we tried real hard
Jimmy quit and Jody got married
I shoulda known we'd never get far

Oh when I look back now
That summer seemed to last forever
And if I had the choice
Ya - I'd always wanna be there
Those were the best days of my life

Ain't no use in complainin'
When you got a job to do
Spent my evenin's down at the drive-in
And that's when I met you

Standin' on your mama's porch
You told me that you'd wait forever
Oh and when you held my hand
I knew that it was now or never
Those were the best days of my life

Back in the summer of '69

Man we were killin' time
We were young and restless
We needed to unwind
I guess nothin' can last forever - forever, no

And now the times are changin'
Look at everything that's come and gone
Sometimes when I play that old six-string
I think about ya wonder what went wrong

Standin' on your mama's porch
You told me it would last forever
Oh the way you held my hand
I knew that it was now or never
Those were the best days of my life

Back in the summer of '69


Has anyone heard this song? It's a rock song and it's very nice. For anyone who don't know what a "six-string" is mentioned in the first phrase, I think it meant a guitar. :) So nice to have a bunch of friends who are your buddies, who enjoy your interest, who hang out with you etc etc. No wonder those were his best days of his life.

Where are the "best" days of my life? Is it yesterday? Is it now? Is it in the future? Will I be enjoying those days fully when it come? Or will I go pass those days without realising it and realising it only after those days are past?

Life is such an irony. Lemme re-phrase that. Life's like a short ironic play. The audience is the world. The main character is you. The supporting characters are whoever you meet in your life. Will the play be a tragic one? Will the play be a comedy? Will the play be remembered long after the play is over? Will the main character know when is the climax of the play?

I hope my "best" days are not over yet. I hope to enjoy them to the fullest when they arrive (if they have not arrived). Cause life's too short for regrets. Life's too short to say "Oops. Let's do that properly again" This play can only be played out once. There's no "NG". There's no retake. And the film is limited....

100%... and then some

Today we played against NUS Tempest floorball team. Though we lost, what seriously seriously gutted me was the way I played. I played like shit and I didn't get to play at all in the 3rd period (there's 3 periods in floorball, each period about 20mins). I was terribly disappointed with myself and guess what, the guilt pressured me to think about pulling out of the floorball team.... It hurts to be swept aside... It hurts to know that you can play well but the performance does not reflect that... It hurts to be made the scrapegoat....

This is why I henceforth resolve: I shall give in 100% and then some in whatever I do from now on (those I deem important to me). I shall not be swept aside through my inability to perform anymore...

100% and then some... I first heard this back in my Commando days. When I was a recruit, my officers and sergeants and trainers will drill this into our mind. For every set of push ups we do, we will do more than the required; when we run, we will always run 1 more round than said initially. Guess I have been too slack with myself...

I still feel very gutted.. Grrr......

Contemplating of upgrading my PC cause it's getting slow in performance. (Do I get an upgrade too since i'm slow in performace too?) Should consult with my frens....

~Strange week~

Haha... Interested to know what's so strange?

1) I added and dropped PE (BF307 - Deriavative Securities) in this week. The bad thing is I bought the textbook liao. Sigh.. I bought the textbook for this module (the text changed) last semester too but in the end, that book was wasted cause I dropped this same module last sem too. Zzzz.... Now, I have 2 BF307 text which I'm not going to use. Duh...

2) I found a FYP tutor!!! He's Prof Poh Eng Hin and I'll be doing a topic that concerns taxation under his guidance. This was after 5 rejections from other professors. :(

3) We lost a floorball league match today 8-6. Sigh... We were leading 3-1 at a point and in the 3rd period (floorball has 3 periods), we were leading 6-3 but we broke down under stress and they scored and scored and scored. Damn it. Thought that we are going to win our FIRST game since a long time. Sigh... That's fate for you.

Not strange for you? Congrats to you then. You live a life that is much more adventurous than mine. :P Back to mugging... C'est tout!

Out ran, out played = totally trashed

I'm sad to announce that I was part of the NTU floorball team that was handed the heaviest defeat in the history of NTU floorball (which is about 4-5 yrs?). We lost to an ang-moh team 23-1. Wow.... They passed us with ease, shot with ease, scored with ease... Something which none of us can do to each other. One ang-moh even scored a cheeky goal... We are younger than them and we had more players to change with but we are still outrun by them. Sigh... Take it as a lesson ba. Not that nice to train and train and end up losing.

Talking about that, we are going to have fitness training on Mon, Wed and Fri. (Choose 3 days out of that 2) as well as the proper training on Tue. That means training 3 days a week!!! How am I going to juggle that with schoolwork? I shall henceforth be called "Nomis the Juggler". Shit man... On the bright side, I'll become fitter. But will being fit and having six pecs be beneficial to my work next time? I don't think so. So perhaps, vainty and reservist are the reasons for continuing with floorball. Perhaps another reason is that I'm in the main committee for floorball...

The start of the second week in school tomorrow. Against all odds. (The motto of my company back in Commandos)

Back to school 5 days review

Wah lau... I quote Mark, "Come to school bag light light, go back home heavy heavy". This statement underscores the pages of notes that we had photocopied and the weight of the books that we had purchased (The winner goes to 'Immediate Accounting') Dun even know whether I can finish the whole piles of notes and these notes ain't even going to last for 1 whole sem!!! There's still lots more to come!!!

Signed up for a P&G roundtable discussion together with Huang Jie. Don't know what it is about but the idea of a free dinner is a worthwhile consideration for me and Huang Jie. (Btw, Huang Jie confirm will work in PWC Tax department after he graduate so he not gian about recruitment talk per se) Problem is the attire is smart casual. Wonder what is smart casual... Sigh....

Ok.. To add on top of my heavy school load, I got the floorball league coming up.. The first match is later today, against a very tough opponent. *shurgs* Will try to take out a few people if possible. :P After that, there will be this floorball camp that will last until tomorrow noon. There goes my time to study and rest. Sigh.. What to do? Have to juggle between CCA and studies...

So tired... Knocked out at 10 yesterday and woke up at 10 today... Zzzz......

HaPpY nEw YeAr!!!

Happy new year everyone!!Hope everyone had a fantastic new year!!! Me stayed overnight at KF's house together with Ivan, Margaret, Huang Jie, Rachel, Kenji (Margaret's bf) and Mark! Played a lot of crappy games and told a lot of crappy jokes. Ivan and Margaret are soooooo compatible! They are telling lame questions whereby only they themselves can decipher and hence, they are entertaining themselves.... Duh...

Didn't had a brillant time as the new year came at 12 midnight. Had a communication problem with my gf and perhaps, it's all my fault. I know I'm short-fused but are the things I want so hard to be done? I dunch know....

School's going to start liao... Hope everyone are well rested and charged up for the upcoming sem! For those who are working, have fun and happy stealing office supplies. Hahaha....